MPs have told foreign minister Maxime Verhagen to make it clear to the US that the Netherlands wants to be rid of American nuclear weapons stationed on European soil, Trouw reports on Friday.

A motion from the Socialist party was backed by the Christian Democrats, Labour, D66 Liberals, GroenLinks and animal rights party PvdD.
The vote came ahead of dinner meeting between US secretary of state Hillary Rodham Clinton and 27 other Nato country representatives to discuss nuclear weapons policy.
Nato head Anders Fogh Rasmussen told a news conference on Thursday he believed that ‘the presence of the American nuclear weapons in Europe is an essential part of a credible deterrent.’
This is a likely signal of defeat for calls by some Europeans for an early withdrawal of the estimated 200 bombs, USA Today reported.